Places tishtishtish Wants to Go

Built around 1845, this house was occupied for 100 years, serving as a home to a prosecuting attorney, a Union Civil War general, and a wealthy socialite.

This 30,000 square-foot museum is home to an extensive collection of art and artifacts that reflect the history of southwest Ohio.

This 85-year-old fireplace in an urban woodland is dedicated to a poet who recognized the beauty of a tree.

Once the largest trading firm of enslaved people in the U.S., this building is now a museum that preserves Alexandria's dark past.

The headquarters of the Audubon Naturalist Society is a small slice of heaven for nature lovers.

A stack of stones steeped in Irish folklore, much like the hero they're connected to, hide in plain sight.

Decades' worth of lost and forgotten objects make up the collection of this tantalizingly odd little museum.

This unassuming riverbank is Missouri’s first designated site in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom.

An underappreciated sculpture garden just a few blocks from the capitol building.

The last remaining attraction from Paragon Park.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

The only museum outside of Australia dedicated to exhibiting the artwork of Indigenous Australian artists.

Built to defend Washington D.C. during the Civil War, this fort became a post-war nucleus for a thriving Black community.

A memorial to Chinese freedom in the city where American freedom was born.

A colorful, century-old cemetery of the Yaqui Indian Tribe hidden amid the suburban sprawl of Tempe, Arizona.

Smoky, also known as "Yorkie Doodle Dandy," was a four-pound hero of World War II.

Built in 1906, this unique building was the first Hindu temple in the United States.

A unique cartoon-filled roadside attraction.

This monument is dedicated to those lost on June 6, 1944, in the town with that day’s highest per-capita casualty rate.

A lush Seattle garden designed by the same landscape architects responsible for New York's Central Park.

A showcase of geologic history is home to one of the largest collection of lunar meteorites on Earth.

Home to the world's largest quilt collection dating from the 1600s through today.

This one-room schoolhouse was revitalized in 2007 as a museum focusing on the education of Black children during the early 20th-century.

A small Second Empire-style building is one of only seven remaining lighthouses on the Hudson River.